The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-11-09
"THE NICHOLS CLUB OF
CARENCRO."

It will be gratifying to the votaries of
Reform-Reform with the biggest kind of
an R-to know that in the pretty little
prairie village Of Carencro, there exists
Nichols club of as fiery patriots as ever
threw dirt at tue supporters of Gov. Nc
Emery, or arrogated to themselves the ex-
elusive possession of all the saintliness
and responsibility in the State. Last
Sunday, as the reports telegraphed to the
Picayune tell us, there was galore at Car
encro OH the occasion of the presentation
of a magnificent" banner to the chi
cholls club of Carencro." A Mr.. c. II.
Bradley WAS w:.s the High-Mrck-a-Muck
of the glorious rally, and he had for a
congenial assistant DR.. +. w. Courtney.
The first dignitJry made the presentation
speech, which the PicayuRe reporter de-
clares to have been q, fine fight of ora
tory" while the doctor" "entered upon
Ii course of dissection; and laid bare to
the bone the pretensien of the adnlinistra-
ton to being levee, agricultural, ednca-
tional and religo-moral high-cockalorem
sort of Governor"
Ordinary mortals would have been con-
tent after so successful an opening of the
sluices of oratory and the performance of
IN operation more interesting to the spec
| tators th;tn harmful to the patient, to
have hung up the fiddle and the bow un-
til the next enthusiastic reunion Of "the
Nichols club OF Carencro." Not so with
the heroes of the occasion, in whose craw
thnre clung bitter resentment Of a degree
Of bi, terness that Reformers alone can
nourish. To abandon the field without
pacing resolutions for transmission by
the Picayune, would have been to leave
the laurels of the weeks enthusing to the
tempe5tuoua Wickliffc, of Grant, who, the
night before, at Alexandria, had smitten
the McEneryites hip and thigh. That
was not to be thought of. So the silver
tongued or:tor of "the Nichols club of
Carencro," assisted by the Esculapius
Who had Just dissected the Levee Cover
nor, drew forth the resolutions" the
product, doubtless, of their concentrated
sagaciousness and Eliminating ardor. In
the PicGyunc's interesting account of the
proceedings, we read that s'the resolu-
lions" were offered by the silver-tongued
orator who moved their adoption, and, on
being seconded by the knight of the Seal
pei, that they received the unanimous
concurrence of "the Nichols club Of
Carencro."
1t is almo,t superfluous to say that the
resolutions, emanating from so profound
a source, were typical of this long to be
remembered campaign of blackguardism.
They struck right and left. Indeed, in
their headlong course, they could find no
WY to extol the idol, until they had
struck ut the editor of this paper-guilty
of not being q candidate for Office, hut,
we presume, of having ruled as chairman
of the Democratic State Central Commit.
tee, that il did not lay iii his power to
have new members enrolled until the
committee had so ordered. For this "the
Nichols club of Carencro"
"Resolvel, That we recognize in Chair.
man l.. Jastremski first-class political
trickster, end unit to preside over o De.
mocraic State Committee, and that we
reaffirm our confidence in Gov. Francis T.
Nichols, who has never faltered in the
dischar.e of his duty"
The blow SO gratuitously leveled at the
editor Of the Capitoliaa- 4duocatc by "the
Nichols club Of Carencro" would be a
crushing one indeed, wore it not that he
can turn to endorsements of lis career
th.t must 20 far with the general publ,
to reverse the iud sment passed upon him
by 'the Nicholl, club Of Carencro." Now
in regard to the very ruling which has
made the editor of the Cdpitolian- Adrocat
so obnoxiou to ''the Nichols club of Ca
rcncro," and to tie Nichols papers who
} just now, IRE reproducing characteristic
article from tie Ne,ps, a recent exponent
of Reform in New Orleans, it happens
that he is III receipt of Il letter from TIN
Hon. James Jet1ries; of Rapides, i'll which
, that gentleman takes occasion to say :
.'Noc that the meeting is ovcr allow me t
say that you satisfied me at once Of the cor
rcctness Of your ruling on my first app1ica
ton for tho call of parishes to place uncon
tested nnaGes on the roll" but after quo
rum was announced think all member
shoald have been seated who had q prim'
ftcie caae. 1t is suggest ed that the objec
ton to this Icy in the fact that there wa
plan to contest seats enough to accom-
pliyh reorganization of the committee
; I wish to Guy that knew of no such plan
and that upon that question Ishould hav
voted to disregard the only precedent
know Of and m;tint;sin for the chairman a
, for the members, :. term"
Mr.. Jetfrics' attitude in this matter, il
the estimation of the editor of the Capito
liam Aduocate, wcallens very considerabl,
the force of the blow aimed at him b.
'the Nichols club of Carencro," wit
whose oracles he las not the slightest &c
3 quaintance, an1 whose mode Of attacl
can scarcely be cla>sed among the meth
$ DDS employed by gentlemen. Besides,
!. it b. necessary, the editor of the Capitt
Hdn-Adrocate hes sn unbroken record Q
party service and fidelity to offer in re
:. buttal of the asper,ion of "the Nicholl
I club of Carencro." That record he's bee
endorsed by three successive elections t
: the Mayor.lty of Baton Rouge; by hi
election to the Constitutional ConventiO
> of 1879; by his unanimous election to tn
4 Craftsmanship of the Democratic Stat
4 Central Committee; and by his unan
. nous selection, at the very last meetin